La Chasse aux Grives – Vintage Wall Art
![La Chasse aux Grives, [between ca. 1834 and 1864] — historic drawing](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/9b/9b148fa5e1cc-L.webp)
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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This historic drawing of La Chasse aux Grives brings a moment of history to your wall. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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La Chasse aux Grives
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Titled in French, *La Chasse aux Grives* shows a walking hunt that ends with dead birds, as the thrush hunting in its title suggests. Thrushes were widely shot and netted for the table in nineteenth-century Britain and France. This small watercolor over pencil was made for a periodical, a common outlet for sporting scenes that gave readers a view of country leisure. Its place on a clothing and dress board points to the figures' field attire, such as the heavy coats, boots, and caps that men of the period typically wore for tramping hedgerows and fields.
| Created / published | [between ca. 1834 and 1864] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 drawing : watercolor over pencil, with Chinese white on wove paper ; 13.4 x 20.6 cm. (sheet) |
| Genre | Drawings British Color 1830-1870.Periodical illustrations British 1830-1870. |
| Subjects | Birds--1830-1870. Dead animals--1830-1870. Walking--1830-1870. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,686 × 1,156 px · prints to 6 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-172860 |
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